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Air Pockets on top of basecake - rotary style cookie
Hello All, I am finding that there are large air pockets on top of a chocolate basecake that we are running. We are seeing hotter temperatures and the oil is stored in a silo outdoors. These basecakes...
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Tips for Incorporating Sodium Bicarbonate and Proteases into Biscuit Dough?
Hello, I would like to know what is the most appropriate way to incorporate sodium bicarbonate and ammonium or proteases into a biscuit dough ( in this moment these are solved in water and incorporate...
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Cracker Width Expansion: Causes and Solutions
Good Day to all, We produced crackers just like Malkist. We encounter a problem in dimension, the width of our cracker expands by 2mm (from the maximum width of 70mm we get 72mm) and our packa...
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Required length of cooling conveyor
What is the required length of the cooling conveyor for a 100ft tunnel oven baking soda crackers? The band is 1 meter wide.  
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Checking in rotary cutter
Good morning! We developed a new cracker and realized it has an important percentage of Checking. How can we improve them?Thanks in advance!
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Oven band selection
In the same tunnel oven if we want to make cookies and short dough/moulded biscuit, which oven band is generally suggested?
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Oven band selection
In the same tunnel oven if we want to make cookies and short dough/moulded biscuit, which oven band is generally suggested?
Andrew Hughes
Chocolate Inside Filled Cookies Getting Hard
Liquid chocolate is getting hard inside the cookies after baking. Baking temperature: 1st Zone: 161 °C, 2nd Zone: 183 °C, 3rd Zone: 165 °C. Baking time: 12.6 minutes.Solution needed: How to get chocol...
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How to Make a Chocolate Ice-cream sandwich biscuit?
Dear allI am trying to produce a chocolate biscuit for the use with ice cream, most importantly it should have the cake like texture when added to icecream.Firstly, I do not know if this type of biscu...
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Soda Crackers - problems with lamination , "fish mouth", and amount of pressure?
We are having different issues with our Soda Crackers running through lamination. He has times where the dough will roll under a relaxation conveyor or right after it. We have been having an issue wit...
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Soda Crackers - problems with lamination , "fish mouth", and amount of pressure?
We are having different issues with our Soda Crackers running through lamination. He has times where the dough will roll under a relaxation conveyor or right after it. We have been having an issue wit...
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Wafer sticks (wafer flutes) recipe
Hello,Can anybody suggest a good wafer sticks book has a good recipe and some information on how to run the machine?Thank you
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Gluten Free Cracker Baking
We manufacture a line of gluten free crackers. The main ingredients are pumpkin seed flour, casava flour and sunflower seed flour. We sheet the dough to around 2mm and cut to shape with rotary cutters...
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How to Write Finished Product Specification?
Hi everyone. Could someone please share how to writing technique of finished products specification with a real example? Thank you
Andrew Hughes
How to Make a Chocolate Ice-cream sandwich biscuit?
Dear allI am trying to produce a chocolate biscuit for the use with ice cream, most importantly it should have the cake like texture when added to icecream.Firstly, I do not know if this type of biscu...
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Blisters and hollow bottom in rotary moulded biscuits
I´ve read the article about rotary moulded biscuits. It is really very interesting. I would like to go deep with the problem of blisters and hollow bottom in the finish product. Please, could you tell...
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How to get a more light color in sugar biscuit cones? 🍦
Hello we are a ice cone manufacturing company in our sugar cone baking ovens we have the problem that the cone comes out wit a dark  brown color, we have to increase lecithin  content  and temperature...
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Weight Issues with final cracker package
Hello Everyone,We have been having issues with the final packaging weight of cream crackers.  Each internal package should weigh around 167 grams * 6 packages = 1 kilo.  However, lately, we haven't be...
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Looking for caramel suppliers for wafers
Hi Biscuit People,I have a question for you.. Which raw material suppliers are the best if I want to make wafers with low water activity caramel filling? Thank you in advance
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Hardness of caramel biscuits
Dear Members,I ask for your advice, how can I reach the required structure of caramel biscuit. I just start the baking of caramel biscuit, but the biscuits are to hard and  not enoug high. I use natri...
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Appearance of white spots on the wafer cone, how to resolve?
Dear group members. Does anyone know how to explain/solve the problem of white spots on the wafer cone as shown in the photo below. What could be causing these spots on the wafer cone?We used the Walt...
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Oreo cookies - recipe for Oreo type cookies?
Hi, 1. Is there any manufacturing scale recipe to be shared for oreo type cookies?2. Oreo cookies is consider short sweet, rich short sweet or semi sweet dough type?Thank you in adcanceRegards,Amye
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Water migration in cream filled puff pastry
Hi i'm making some mini puff pastry rolls filled with cream, the filling cream is made 50% fat, 47% sugar and 3% flavor.      But in a time lapse of one week , the pastry roll turns wet and the fillin...
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Shelf-Life of Lactation Cookies
Hi All,I am a home-based manufacturer of Lactation Cookies for breastfeeding mothers. I am now slowly scaling up my business and am in need of some help increasing shelf-life of the product as I have...
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Recipe for soda crackers lamination and drying methods?
I need cream crackers recipe with fermentation mixing, lamination and drying methods. 
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Where to Find Natural Leavening Agent?
Hello everyone,I'm trying to find a leavening agent (not yeast, steam or any other conventional leavening agent) that I can use for crackers that are made of natural ingredients only. The ingredients...
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Cheese snack cracker without fermentation.
We are making squares cheese crackers with fermentation.  We think for scheduling it would make more sense to the smaller snack cracker with out fermentation.(kind of like a goldfish) The recipes are...
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Marie biscuits with soapy taste
Hi, Amye here.Issue: marie biscuit having soapy tasteRoot cause I have in mind: imbalance pH, saponification process which happened when ammonia bicarbonate reacted with shortening. Question: Is there...
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Chocolate filling
Good Day I am planning to produce chocolate filling using a ball mill machine. This filling will be encrusted in a cookie. What is the best heat stable fat to use to avoid burning of the filling and a...
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Why does wire cut biscuit dough get sticky when using oil?
Hello When using oil in a wire cut type cookie (no chips or inclusions), it gets sticky.It causes a lot of problems in process (extruder roll stuck, bad piece deposit, breakage of wires, etc...)....
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